pseudorational

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ rational.

Adjective

pseudorational (not comparable)

  1. Supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.
    • 1988, Brian P. McLaughlin, Amélie Rorty, Perspectives on Self-Deception, page 318:
      For these reasons, the self-deceiver is particularly recalcitrant and impervious to any attempts of her own to survey and critically revise her own pseudorational self-conception.
  2. (mathematics) Able to be expressed as the convolution ratio of distributions with compact support.
    • 1991, Russian Mathematical Surveys, page 38:
      It is found that some pseudorational families also have the Cartesian property.
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